Inktober 2025 — Day 12 — Shredded

I’m really happy with what I did with the circle this time. It’s probably not a perfect circle if you put the two halves back together but I don’t really care, it looks great!

Anyways, I grew up with the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, so I based the Shredder’s design from that. His outfit, despite looking simple, did have some details I mixed up, like the placement of the spikes/claws(?) on his shoulder pads and forearm and leg guards. I never really noticed how… pointy his armor was until now. Also is it just me or is it oddly hard to draw simple eyes surrounded by darkness without them looking weird?

I’m not sure why Stain also came to mind, probably the serrated sword he has (I don’t know what the technical name of it is), but I got really invested of the idea of Stain vs Shredder. I also like Stain as a character, he’s creepy and cool, powerful, an experienced fighter and his design is really cool. Not if only he were easy to draw. Seriously, with the amount of wraps and scarves he has, plus his hair, I had to be extra careful trying to differentiate everything. Filling in his black hair made it easier at least.

Not much else to say about this really; two characters known to slash, slice, and shred through their enemies possibly about to face off or just ready to cut through the heroes their after. All in all I’m really happy with how this came out. Now here’s a question: Who do you think would win?

Inktober 2025 — Day 11 — Sting

So I very much gravitated to the thought of bees when I think of “Sting” as a prompt. I know they’re not the only creature in the world who stings (wasps, hornets, scorpions, etc.), and sting can mean a type of operation, but come on bees are too fitting! I thought of what bee characters I could draw and remembered that Bumblebee from Transformers has weapons literally called stingers, particularly in the Animated series which I have already drawn from (forgive the pun).

Then I also remembered a Miraculous Ladybug AU where Marinette has the Bee Miraculous rather than the Ladybug earrings and really wanted to include that as well. I especially loved her upgraded look with the extra stripes and the little puffs at her wrists and ankles. So with my characters picked out I planned a simple scene with the two side by side. I had thought of adding Bumblebee’s stinger weapons but then I started designing far more complicated fight scenes and had to stop myself. I’m learning my lesson, I swear.

I think the most challenging part was committing to the full black and white design. Filling in the black parts made me really slow down to make sure I was filling in everything evenly and filling in the right parts, lest I accidentally end up swapping the light and the dark parts. But I’m really happy with how it turned out, especially Marigold! I think she came out really cute!

Marigold is from the Scarlet Lady AU comic made by the very talented @zoe-oneesama and I can only hope I did her justice. (Love your work Zoe!)

Inktober 2025 — Day 10 — Sweep

Who else watched the Kirby anime as a kid? I remember watching the Japanese dub online, binging episodes back to back and especially loving the theme song. Actually, come to think of it that might have been my first introduction to anime in general. Good times. :)

For the prompt, I wanted to do Cleaning Kirby on his broom flying out of the frame while his friends and other characters are looking up at him. I think they all came out pretty well, though it was surprisingly hard drawing some of them since the scale was so small. All in all a nice, light hearted drawing for a pretty simple prompt.

Also, a little side note, is anyone else a Fumu/Tiff fan? I feel like she’s underrated. I get she can be annoying, there are some episodes I feel she gets really pushy, but she is just a kid. A very smart kid at that, like when she did full calculations of a star coming towards her home town. I can see why she’d get frustrated when people underestimate her or don’t listen. I don’t know, maybe my biases are showing.

Inktober 2025 — Day 9 — Heavy

Of course the Heavy Weapons Guy was the first thing that came to mind at this prompt. Unfortunately I never got the opportunity to play Team Fortress 2 since I never had a proper gaming computer, but maybe one day I’ll get the chance.

I tried thinking of what I could draw Heavy doing: Maybe him lifting or passing the payload, maybe him and his sandvich, but I wanted to emphasize the heavy prompt. Then all of a sudden I thought “Hey, you know what else is technically heavy? Thor’s hammer!” And now we’re here I guess.

Initially I made a rough draft of Heavy trying to lift Mjolnir, but I had trouble getting the proportions right since Heavy is a really big guy and Mjolnir is surprisingly small in comparison. Also I didn’t want to open the can of worms the debate would be if Heavy is worthy of welding Mjolnir (I’ll leave that to the TF2 professionals) so I’m leaving it up to debate. Instead here’s Heavy having just found Thor’s hammer and looking in intrigue.

Inktober 2025 — Day 8 — Reckless

When I tried thinking of a reckless character that I personally knew of, the first one who came to mind was Izuku Midoriya. After all it’s practically a running gag how many of his own bones he has broken. But when I gave it more thought, he wasn’t entirely reckless throughout MHA. Yes, he’d rush into danger and come up with risky plans, but he would at least do his best to plan and only took extreme risks because the situation called for it. He was always aware of his environment, and had ideas that, while dangerous, are ones he thought through thoroughly (say that five times fast). He took risks, but was never reckless.

In contrast to Izuku, Galo Thymos is definitely more reckless. His whole thing is rushing into life threatening situations with very little planning. He’s not an idiot, he knows how dangerous fires are and he’s clearly done his training, but the amount of times he’s gotten himself into trouble or ran into a very dangerous scenario is probably concerning for this Burning Rescue Team. Thankfully he’s got luck on his side, and he was definitely a more fitting character for the prompt. I wanted to draw Galo rushing into fire, likely to save someone’s life. I wanted the flames (likely Burnish flames) to sort of move around him almost like they’re surrounding him but not quite attacking him. I do kind of want to color this in another time though that’s mostly because Promare is a visually stunning movie with really nice color schemes, especially with the Burnish.

(Apologies for the sudden absence. Something in life came up that I had to prioritize which led me to having less time in the afternoon to draw, plus I was unable to stay up late since getting up early in the morning became much more important.)

Inktober 2025 — Day 7 — Starfish

Patrick Star. Enough said.

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Okay, I guess there’s more I can say. I grew up on classic SpongeBob episodes, and I still have very fond memories of the show. So of course when I saw the “Starfish” prompt, Patrick was the first thing that came to mind. I couldn’t fight it no matter how much I tried thinking of something different, so I embraced it.

One of my favorite episodes to this day is Band Geeks. It has so many good moments, great jokes, and an amazing finale. I also came across a reanimated project of the episode online and I always love those kinds of fan group projects. As for Patrick himself, well I think everyone knows what moment this came from. I really wanted to have him popping out of the circle and emphasizing just how tall he got like in the episode.

While it is directly from the episode rather thany usual different take, I am happy with the end result. After so many days of complicated and detailed designs, it was nice to draw something simple that brings back good memories. A very simple drawing and definitely a needed break from more complex ideas.

Inktober 2025 — Day 6 — Pierce

This prompt took much longer than expected, partially because I got sick for a day and needed time to recover. The other part was coming up with ideas for the prompt, which one to go for, and choosing what characters to use for said idea. I had considered drawing someone getting their ears pierced, and while I still like that idea, I couldn’t think of a single character who doesn’t already have their ears pierced but whom I could imagine doing so. In the end, I went with the idea of a sword piercing through someone. Or rather two people.

So, Elephant in the room: I am not a direct fan of Honkai Star Rail. By that I mean the majority of what I know about the story comes from one of my best friends info dumping on me whenever there’s an update or she finds something about her favorite characters. But I love hearing what she’s interested in, it sounds really interesting, and I also info dump on her plenty of times so it’s fair. It’s part of being best friends. ☺️

Two characters my friend talks about frequently are Mydei and Phainon. Their backstories, powers and positions in the story, cursed fates, and so on. So pulling everything I could remember, I thought of a scene where Phainon ends up stabbing Mydei in the back while they’re having a moment, but ends up piercing through himself as well. Honestly for my very first time drawing anything from this series, I’m fairly happy with how it came out. I know I probably missed some details in the outfits but I still think they’re recognizable. I can only hope I’ve done at least some justice for the Honkai Star Rail fandom. (I also haven’t shown my best friend this yet, so I’m curious how she’ll react. Hopefully she likes it! 🤞)

Also, I didn’t realize until now that I wrote “pierced” instead of just “pierce” and I’m not going back to change it now. Sorry, but I’m exhausted.

UPDATE: I realized I didn’t draw Phainon’s sword’s guard correctly and completely missed the sun design. I felt really bad especially because my friend really loves the series, so I went back and fixed it, as well as fixing the prompt just because.

Inktober 2025 — Day 5 — Deer

I’m kind of bending the definition of “deer” for this prompt, but come on I couldn’t pass an opportunity to draw a Hazbin Hotel character. I remember when the pilot came out and I really likes Alastor’s character and I drew him for the first time. I think this is only the second time I’ve drawn him surprisingly and I’m pretty happy with what I did.

I wanted a scene where someone is aiming a shot at Alastor with some sort of gun but then Alastor catches on and spots them, then gives the would be attacker a smug, arrogant grin as though taunting them to try and take the shot.

I did have an idea of adding the sort of glitch effects that happen whenever a camera is on Alastor in the show or when he starts turning into his demon form, but I ended up liking the clean drawing as it was so I’ll shelf that idea for another time.

Inktober 2025 — Day 4 — Murky

So thinking of murky, immediately I think of murky waters. And building off of that, the first characters that came to mind were the Leech Twins from Twisted Wonderland. But for some reason I wanted to try to think of something else. Unfortunately this just led to me wasting time until I ultimately decided to go with my first choice. While I wasn’t sure how to draw murky or foggy waters with just an ink pen, I did have an image in my head of the twins lurking in the water hiding behind rocks or seaweed. After some rough sketches, I figured out a cool scene with Jade and Floyd almost observing something through a wall of sea plants.

I did my best drawing the Leech twins in eel-mer form. While I think I made the markings on Jade’s face a bit off, other wise I am happy with my first attempt. Though the real challenge surprisingly was trying to get the twins to look like twins. Once I drew one, drawing the other became much more difficult. I feel it’s similar to trying to draw the other eye on a face, I know everyone has struggled with that at least once (if you haven’t, you’re lying!)

Inktober 2025 — Day 3 — Crown

So apparently I just can’t keep things simple. Just three days in and I choose to draw not one but TWO characters with incredibly intricately detailed designs. But in this case, I don’t regret it because I really love how this came out.

My first thought of “Crown” was Riddle Rosehearts since he literally has a crown. But I didn’t want to draw just him by himself, so I kept brainstorming. Eventually I thought of Lizzie Hearts from Ever After High and knew it was a perfect match. I kept the poses simple because their outfits were the biggest challenge. Seriously, full love and respect to their creators.

I think it’s pretty interesting to compare the two and see their differences and similarities. For example, Lizzie definitely has the better mother. They both play croquet and are friends with their own Cheshire Cat. They both have a bit of a temper but are getting better and at the end of the day they are good people with great friends. Is it strange if I kind of ship them? As long as Riddle’s mom stays out of the picture.

(As a quick aside, if anyone is interested in more Twisted Wonderland X Ever After High crossover content I highly recommend checking out @sayuricorner and their Headcanons. They have a lot of good stuff.)